The night marked the moment King recognized his influence on the new generation of blues guitarists —but he had no bitterness ...
Blues legend B.B. King has named every guitar he played Lucille since one fateful night in the winter of 1949 in an Arkansas dance hall.
B.B. King was already a 20-year veteran bluesman when he began to seep into mainstream America's consciousness during the late '60s, via the praise of rock guitarists like Eric Clapton and Mike ...
The song, "Three O'Clock Blues," earned ... and continued to play to large black audiences, B.B. King did not achieve the same mainstream success as some of his contemporaries.